“DICTATORSHIP: a place where public opinion can’t even be expressed privately.”
(Walter Winchell, 1897 – 1972)
John Lentell
9th Spetember, 1969
Tuesday’s Piece
“One is rich not through one’s possessions, but through that which one can with dignity do without.”
(Epicurus, 341 BCE – 270 BCE)
John Lentell
8th September, 1969
Monday’s Piece
I have been looking, unsuccessfully, for a quotation to do with – anonymity – smear and rumour. Really an inadequate attempt to cut down to size the twisted minds that make ‘funny’ telephone calls, spread rumour and write offensive letters to which they significantly have not the guts to put their name. I do not receive many of the latter but I do receive enough to warrant mention of the matter. There are reasons to suppose that this sort of thing is sometimes politically motivated. Indeed, it is really a pattern with which in Rhodesia we have become all to familiar and better men than I have been its target.
John Lentell
7th September, 1969
Sunday’s Piece
“I will reveal to you a love potion, without medicine, without herbs, without any witch’s magic; if you want to be loved then LOVE.”
(Hecaton of Rhodes, c. 100 BC)
John Lentell
6th September, 1969
Saturday’s Piece
“Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee;
Corruption wins not more than hoenesty.
Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace,
To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not…..”
(From King Henry VIII by William Shakespeare, 1564 – 1616)
John Lentell
5th September, 1969
Friday’s Piece
“The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.”
(From “The Devil’s Disciple” by George Bernard Shaw, 1856 – 1950)
John Lentell
4th September, 1969
Thursday’s Piece
“Parents represent the last stand of the amateur. Every other trade and profession has developed standards, has required study and practise and licensing before releasing the student into his work….Only one profession remains untutored and untrained – the bearing and rearing of our children.”
John Lentell
3rd September, 1969
Wednesday’s Piece
“We (the English) seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.”
(Sir John Robert Seeley, 1834 – 1895)
John Lentell
2nd September, 1969
Tuesday’s Piece
“Children use the fist
Until they are of age to use the brain.”
(Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1806 – 1861)
John Lentell
1st September, 1969
Monday’s Piece
“Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.”
(From Areopagitica, a speech by John Milton, 1608 – 1674)
There are things happening in Rhodesia which have nothing to do with Communism but everything to do with the fundamental rights of the man in the street and it is the man in the street who must get up off his backside and do something.
John Lentell
30th August, 1969
Sunday’s Piece
“Out of the earth to rest or range
Perpetual in perpetual change,
The unknown passing through the strange.”
(John Masefield, 1878 – 1967)
John Lentell
29th August, 1969
Saturday’s Piece
“We sleep, but the loom of life never
stops and the pattern which was
weaving when the sun went down is
weaving when it comes up tomorrow.”
(Henry Ward Beeceher, 1813 – 1887)
John Lentell
28th August, 1969
Friday’s Piece
“Henry Irving getting into a hansom cab said to the cabby, ‘Drive me home.’
‘Yes, sir,’ replied the cabby, ‘what address?’
‘Why should I tell the address of my beautiful home to a common fellow like you?’ replied Irving.”
John Lentell
27th August, 1969
Thursday’s Piece
“We thought he was a bit of an aristocrat when he first came, but we soon found he was a decent fellow.”
(Factory workers on a managing director, reported in Picture Post)
John Lentell
26th Augsut, 1969
Wednesday’s Piece
“Etiam sapientibus cupido gloriae novissima exuitur.”
For even with philosphers the passion for fame is often their last rag of infirmity.
(Tacitus, AD 56 – AD 117)
John Lentell
25th August, 1969
Tuesday’s Piece
“Remember, no human condition is ever permanent; then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.”
(Socrates, 469 BC – 399BC)
John Lentell
23rd August, 1969
Monday’s Piece
“Orthodoxy is my doxy; heterodoxy is another man’s doxy.”
(Remark to Lord Sandwich by Bishop William Warburton, 1698 – 1779)
John Lentell
22nd August, 1969
Sunday’s Piece
“….The earth is nobler than the world we have built upon it;
The earth is long-suffering, solid, fruitful;
The world still shifting, dark, half-evil.
But what have I done that I should have a better world,
Even though there is in me something that will not rest
Until it sees Paradise….?”
(Second half of quotation… Johnson in ‘Johnson over Jordan‘ by J.B. Priestly, 1894 – 1984)
John Lentell
21st August, 1969
Saturday’s Piece
“I have been a foolish, greedy and ignorant man;
Yet I have had my time beneath the sun and the stars;
I have known the returning strength and sweetness of the seasons.
Blossom on the branch and the ripening of the fruit,
The deep rest of the grass, the salt of the sea,
The frozen ecstasy of mountains…..”
(First half of quotation… Johnson in ‘Johnson over Jordan‘ by J.B. Priestly, 1894 – 1984)
John Lentell
20th August, 1969
Friday’s Piece
“It is not good for all your wishes to be fulfilled: through sickness you recognise the value of health, through evil the value of good, through hunger the value of satisfaction, through exertion the value of rest.”
(Heraclitus, 535 – 475 BC)
John Lentell
19th August, 1969
Lentell Soup 